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Quotes About Regret

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.
~ Eloisa James
I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!
~ Jack Bauer
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
~ Tina Turner
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
~ George Ade
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
~ Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.
~ Dana Gould
Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.
~ David Wong
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time
~ Katharine Hepburn
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
~ Lord Byron
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
~ Louisa May Alcott
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
~ Quincy Jones
Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.
~ Rachel Renée Russell
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
~ Richard Stallman
One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I'm human.
~ Rob Ford
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
~ Robert Breault
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
~ Roger Moore
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
~ Salvador Dali
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
~ Tupac Shakur